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A Pathway to Beautiful Bananas

(runtime: 2:09 min)

Behold the banana, plucked from tropical plantations and hurried around the globe at the height of golden perfection. But getting millions of tons of bananas from tree to table is complex; the window for ripeness is narrow. Wei Shan et al. found banana homologs of NAC transcription factors and used the Matchmaker® Gold Yeast Two-Hybrid System to confirm their involvement in ethylene signaling — one step to understanding mechanisms of banana ripening. That's Good Science!™